Residents of Kirinyaga County stormed Kagio town on Wednesday, urging the Senate to save Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from impeachment.
The irate residents barricaded the Kutus-Sagana Highway as Rigathi was in the House for the impeachment hearing.
The more than 1,000 vividly angry residents declared that they were fully behind the Deputy President.
They also said they were sending messages to Kirinyaga senator James Murango to vote against the impeachment of the deputy president.
“Gachagua and President William Ruto were standing here. They were urging us to support them in 2022; why Gachagua now?” posed Stephen Kariuki.
The demos came barely a day after a group of women from the county urged Ruto to reciprocate their support by appointing Waiguru as the Deputy President.
They endorsed Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru as the most suitable candidate to take up the Deputy President’s position should Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment sail through.
Speaking in Kutus town, the women, who included community leaders drawn from all the 20 wards, said Kenya is now ripe for a woman Deputy President, and Waiguru was a sure bet for the position.
They asked President Ruto to return the DP position to the Mt. Kenya Region and this time give it to a woman in keeping with his promise of having a female running mate in the future.
“As residents of the Mountain and Kirinyaga, we fully supported President Ruto in 2022, and we are asking him that should that opportunity arise, he should reciprocate our support by giving us Waiguru as the Deputy President,” said Mary Nyawira.
Since Deputy President Gachagua’s impeachment process commenced, there have been calls to replace him with a candidate from the Mountain region, with intense lobbying by women across the country to have women appointed to the position.